When trying to seek/skip through a streamed video using the MMS/MMSH protocols, FFmpeg/FFPlay freezes. I first encountered this problem in XBMC but FFPlay experiences the same behaviour. I've tested it with several Dutch streams, which all show the problem. It works fine when I use an older version of XBMC which uses libmms so it seems to be a problem FFmpeg's implementation.
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Commenting out NOBINSEARCH and NOGENSEARCH. does not fix the problem, unfortunately, which totally makes sense since our older ffmpeg which didn't have them also suffered from this problem.
Yeah, I found that out with some more testing. It seemed to fix the problem with one stream I tried but not any others. I'm not beat yet, though. I'm gonna try to track this bug down since it's preventing me from being able to upgrade XBMC.
I've been trying to figure this out but so far I haven't had any luck. I've traced the problem as far back as retry_transfer_wrapper() in avio.c. When the error occurs, retry_transfer_wrapper() returns a negative number due to transfer_func(). This negative number makes it's way to line 83 in mmsh.c where it fails. I guess I don't understand what exactly transfer_func() is supposed to be doing. I think it's the key to the problem, but I could be wrong.
Seeking with ffmpeg -ss works fine now afaict, seeking with ffplay mmsh:// is supported to a certain degree.
I am trying to seek/skip the mmsh stream referenced above using the latest development branch build. It still causes ffplay/ffmpeg to crash. The command line is below.
The ffplay report is attached.
I am trying to seek/skip the mmsh stream referenced above using the latest development branch build. It still causes ffplay/ffmpeg to crash.
I opened ticket #2581, thank you for testing and the report!


Indian Ocean nation shows willingness to prosecute and jail bandits on the high seas.
Government officials at an international conference on piracy in Dubai say there must be a regional response to the problem.
One tiny nation is among a handful of countries to prosecute and imprison pirates.
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Ekushey had to happen . . .
Let this be our first point of agreement. Ekushey was the earliest intimation of a rising Bengali nationalism in the state of Pakistan. And that was as it should have been, seeing that by going along with the All-India Muslim League in its programme of the creation of Pakistan, the people of Bangladesh may have committed one of those major historical blunders which condemn societies to darkness for a very long time. Bengal had always been a metaphor for secular politics, until Lord Curzon, in association with the Dhaka Nawab family that knew no Bengali and therefore was blissfully ignorant of Bengali culture, sliced through the land in 1905. That partition proved to be unsustainable, for all the right reasons.
But then came 1947, when neighbours --- Bengali Muslims and Hindus --- turned on one another with a ferocity the likes of which had never before been experienced. The precursor, of course, was the Direct Action Day in 1946, when a Muslim prime minister of a yet united Bengal simply mutated into a partisan politician and set off a conflagration that would leave at least 5,000 Hindus and Muslims in four days of intense violence. But then again, this same politician, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, in association with Sarat Chandra Bose, hit upon the notion --- and that on the eve of partition --- that Bengal could remain intact as a sovereign state even as free India and Pakistan came into shape. That was absurd, for a united, independent Bengal would leave its 44 per cent Hindus at the mercy of its 56 per cent Muslims. And do not forget that Suhrawardy was one of the foremost votaries of the Pakistan idea. Bengali Hindus were wary of him, after August 1946. It was a sentiment loudly expressed by Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. Bengal went through the knife again, with its east becoming part of a communal dispensation and its west opting for a secular India.
But then, as they say, Bengalis will always be Bengalis, with their passion for poetry and frenzied pursuit of politics. It was a character trait neither Mohammad Ali Jinnah nor his Urdu and Punjabi-speaking acolytes had taken note of. Besides, Jinnah's ego was what inflamed the Bengalis of the state he had created out of British India. Surprisingly for a man of such legal perspicuity and political astuteness, his understanding of Bengali history and culture was poor. In March 1948, only hours after telling his audience at Curzon Hall (note how Curzon keeps coming back) that Urdu would be the lingua franca of Pakistan, he indignantly asked a Dhaka University students delegation if Bengal could cite any great men of letters or politics in its history. Irreverence was in the air as the young men rattled off a number of names, to which Jinnah had no response, save his feeling that these young certainly did not know how to respect their elders. Jinnah would not budge; and the students would not give ground. Pakistan faced a big question mark.
It was a diminished Jinnah who took leave of life in September 1948. It was a political pigmy, in the person of Khwaja Nazimuddin, who succeeded him and immediately went throwing his weight around. Echoing Jinnah, he warned Bengalis that they would have to live with Urdu. It was behavior that left even Chief Minister Nurul Amin and Chief Secretary Aziz Ahmed embarrassed. Nazimuddin's ancestor Salimullah had pushed Bengal to partition in 1905; and now Nazimuddin was doing all he could, without realizing it of course, to push Bengalis into a confrontation with the state of Pakistan. The confrontation came, in February 1952. Something went out of Pakistan, something of fire came into the Bengali soul. That the Bengalis were a nation, despite nearly half of them considering themselves part of India, was the idea thrown up by Ekushey. Linguistic nationalism, a rarity in the history of the world, sprouted in the fecundity of East Bengal.
When you think back on the language question, you are quite stupefied by the ignorance or arrogance or both that underlined the attitude of the ruling Muslim League leadership towards Bengalis. Liaquat Ali Khan and Abdur Rab Nishtar had little time to sit back and reflect on the ramifications of a rejection of the Bengali demand. Men like Dhirendranath Dutta and Bhupendra Kumar Datta, courageous to the marrow of their bones, pointed to the writing on the wall if the Bengali language was brushed aside. But they refused to read that writing. Isn't it quite intriguing that the first few individuals to raise the demand for Bengali were Bengali Hindus? If you go through the proceedings of the Pakistan constituent assembly session of 25 February 1948 --- and that was less than a month before Jinnah travelled to Dhaka --- you will wonder why no Bengali Muslim rose in the House to defend their Hindu compatriots. Because they were beholden to Jinnah and Liaquat for their places in the sun? Or were they in the process of embracing a new, faux Pakistani nationalism to the exclusion of their Bengali heritage? Do not forget that Bengalis like Fazlur Rahman were always around to undermine their own language. Rahman had the audacity to suggest that Bengali be written in the Arabic script, an instance of silliness that naturally brought him much justifiable opprobrium. Men like Jinnah, Liaquat, Fazlur Rahman and a whole legion of others kept looking for Islam in some of the unlikeliest of places, and they spotted it in Urdu. Now, Urdu is a most melodious language, one that gives us the profundity of ghazals and teaches us an aristocracy of behavior. None of its votaries --- Ghalib, Zauq, Mir Taqi Mir et al --- ever suggested that it was the language of Muslims. But these purveyors of Pakistan thought they had chanced upon a huge discovery. What they did not discover was their own vulnerability before those passionate Bengalis.
Which is why Ekushey had to happen. And yet Ekushey did not lead to any perceptible change of heart among Pakistan's political classes. Without the slightest of qualms, they dismissed the Jukto Front ministry in East Bengal only two years later. Without any thought to the consequences, they brought in the absurdity of population parity between the two wings of Pakistan into the 1956 constitution. Without any embarrassment, the army took over in 1958, effectively scuttling any chances of a general election in early 1959. Without a basic understanding of politics, the state of Pakistan went after the Six Points. And without any fear that its action in East Pakistan would jeopardize the future of Pakistan, the army happily went around murdering three million Bengalis. Pakistan bled to death in Bangladesh.
And Bengali nationalism, tracing its roots to Ekushey 1952, asserted itself. Quite natural, quite understandable.


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The Wider Image: Meet Italy's oldest student, surviving WW2 and a pandemic to graduate at 96
At 96, Giuseppe Paterno has faced many tests in life - childhood poverty, war and more recently, the coronavirus pandemic. Now he has sailed through an exam that makes him Italy's oldest university graduate. This week, the former railway worker stepped forward to receive his diploma and the traditional laurel wreath awarded to Italian students when they graduate, applauded by his family, teachers and fellow students more than 70 years his junior. "I am a normal person, like many others," he said, when asked what it felt like to be graduating so late. "In terms of age I have surpassed all the others but I didn't do it for this." Already in his 90s when he enrolled for a degree in History and Philosophy at the University of Palermo, Paterno grew up loving books, but he never had the chance to study. "I said, 'that's it, now or never,' and so in 2017, I decided to enrol," he told Reuters in his apartment in the Sicilian city of Palermo, which he rarely leaves nowadays due to his frailty. "I understood that it was a little late to get a three-year degree but I said to myself 'let's see if I can do it'." On Wednesday, he graduated first in his class with top honours, receiving congratulations from the university chancellor Fabrizio Micari. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY SEARCH "ITALY'S OLDEST STUDENT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. Matching Text: ITALY-OLDEST STUDENT/
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Braintree é uma cidade localizada no condado de Norfolk no estado estadounidense de Massachusetts.  No Censo de 2010 tinha uma população de 35.744 habitantes e uma densidade populacional de 947,66 pessoas por km².

Geografia
Segundo a Departamento do Censo dos Estados Unidos, Braintree tem uma superfície total de 37.72 km², da qual 35.61 km² correspondem a terra firme e (5.59%) 2.11 km² é água.

Demografia
Segundo o censo de 2010, tinha 35.744 pessoas residindo em Braintree. A densidade populacional era de 947,66 hab./km². Dos 35.744 habitantes, Braintree estava composto pelo 86.66% brancos, o 2.72% eram afroamericanos, o 0.17% eram amerindios, o 7.56% eram asiáticos, o 0.03% eram insulares do Pacífico, o 1.26% eram de outras raças e o 1.6% pertenciam a duas ou mais raças. Do total da população o 2.49% eram hispanos ou latinos de qualquer raça.

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Protesters take on a rotten housing redevelopment in Southwark
by Alistair Farrow
Published Tue 28 Mar 2017
Protesters in Southwark last Saturday (Pic: Socialist Worker)
Around 150 people marched against the proposed redevelopment of vast swathes of Southwark, south London, last Saturday.
The Canada Water and Old Kent Road Area Action Plans will mean the demolition of children's playgrounds, community centres and estates—and a rent hike.
The protest was called by Southwark Defend Council Housing (DCH).
Chair of Rotherhithe Housing Forum Barry Duckett told marchers, "We're being socially cleansed, but we're not going to move, we're going to stick together."
Gerry Flynn from the 35 percent housing campaign spoke about the fight against the redevelopment of the Aylesbury estate. "We have a right to a community and a right to live and not have to move if a developer has their eye on a bit of land," he said.
The march had been set to finish at the Thurlow Lodge community hall on the Aylesbury estate, following a sit-in by charity Divine Rescue to stop their eviction.
But the council told Divine Rescue that this would put their lease at risk.
Housing campaigners came from across London to deepen the organisation against redevelopments. Deborah from Lewisham told Socialist Worker, "The Tories are starving local authorities of funding so councils are looking to council tax, business rates and increasingly estate selloffs as a source of revenue.
"The battles that were fought in the 1920s are going to have to be fought again in 2020. We have to make the choice between a hellish future or standing up and fighting back."
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Microsoft Updates Skype For Android With Picture-In-Picture Feature
The new feature will allow you to maintain eye contact with your conversation partner while messing around on other apps
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Microsoft has just rolled out an update for its Skype messenger on Android phones that allows users to view their conversation partners even while using other apps. The picture-in-picture feature was earlier available only on tablets, but since phones only seem to be getting larger by the day, it has finally made its way down.
The picture-in-picture windows runs on top of whatever app you may be using, and it can be easily moved around so that it doesn't always get in the way. It's a great feature to allow multitasking, while also keeping an eye on what the person at the other end of the conversation is doing.
The Skype update for Android also bring in several fixes, such as faster loading of chats when opened from notifications, and Google+ style formatted texts. Further, the update is just one of the few big changes Microsoft has got planned for its flagship chat messenger.
The one feature we're all dying to see is the real-time speech translation that Microsoft has begun rolling out on a test basis for a few users. The company has also made Skype a part of its Office Online apps, allowing users to easily chat with collaborators of a Word or PowerPoint document from within the apps themselves.
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The Masons Secret
Masons Degree
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History of Knights Templar Freemasonry
As we saw in the last chapter, after going underground to escape the Inquisition, the Templars infiltrated various other sects and organizations. For their purposes, the masons' lodges were an ideal choice. Very quickly, they infiltrated them, brought them under their own control, adapted and altered them to accommodate the Templars' own philosophy, beliefs, and rituals. Since they had long been trained in the arts of architecture and masonry and had gained expertise in building castles and Gothic cathedrals, it was easy enough for the Templars to infiltrate and control the professional guilds of masons. Published reference works by Masons refer more often to the symbolic features of their merger with the Templars, than to the darker aspects the Masons inherited from them.
As one Turkish Masonic source writes:
The Grand Master's abacus [staff of office] is evidence for the connection between the Templars and Freemasons. This staff is a symbol representing Aaron's rod [mentioned in the Bible-a walking stick that sprouted leaves]. Its head is in the form of a temple, and along length of its body is carved measurements. This staff is a symbol of masonry.
In France as well as in Jerusalem, Templars and Freemasons existed side by side and must have influenced each other's esoteric knowledge. An examination of architecture when the Gothic style came to be adopted reveals that the first European churches built deliberately in the new Gothic style began to be constructed after Jerusalem's conquest by the crusaders.
With the Templars' Grand Master being also the Freemasons', it can be observed that the gradual progress from operational Masonry to speculative Masonry had already begun. The Cistercian monks, dealing with construction planning, had also been members of masons' lodges-an example to the clerical or monastic type of mason; In Paris, where all other professions had their own lodges, the masons shared quarters with the Templars, also showing the close relationship between the two organizations.
The Papal decree of 1312 that liquidated the Templars' order also ended the Masons' right of free passage. Fearing even worse reversals, French Masons fled to Germany where, from then on, Gothic architecture became suddenly dominant. There, the Masons' lodges that received Templars escaping from France experienced the same gradual transformation as the British ones had-from operational to speculative Masonry.
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I work with a few people that love photography, including myself. We'll take pictures with anything. Now thanks to great cell phone cameras I never feel like I'm without something that will capture a pretty decent image. But I always feel the flash is lacking on these phone. Look I get it I'm expecting way too much from a phone camera flash.
One day we were playing around with our camera phones and trying out alternative lighting. Like pen lights and small LED lights. Then I realized what I wanted was a light that had a bunch of lights like the ones in cell phones, mainly because they are bright. Since I'm an artist I'm always carrying around pens. So I came up with the WriteLight.
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Size of a regular pen.
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Has a clip to hang off a short. But could come with an accessory that acts like a tripod.


Gary Winter has his work in more Pleasanton homes than any other artist. He is the creator of the town's miniatures -- landmark buildings, businesses and homes, and the beloved Main Street arch.
Perhaps just as importantly, Winter brings his energy downtown every day, where he finds inspiration on ways to convey his message: Acknowledge your heart.
His mother and his father taught him to think from his heart, said Winter, 70, who was the oldest of four.
"My mother used to always say, 'Gary, if you want to be a good artisan, pay attention to your heartfelt thought,'" Winter said. "That's where intuition and inspiration comes from. Not your mind, your heart."
His father inadvertently introduced him to nail art when he was 6 or 7 years old.
"My dad was always in the garage and would show me how to use hand tools," Winter remembered. "One day I was bugging him, I guess, so he picked up a small bag of nails, plopped it in front of me with a hammer and pointed to some pieces of wood. He said, 'Go over there and use your imagination.' I did a little tiny oak tree, about 6 or 7 inches square."
Winter went on to create nail art that is now on display in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, and in Ripley's Believe It Or Not! museum in Florida, among others.
He and his brothers were always creative. After their dad challenged them to find a use for a printing press' enormous discarded tubes that had held rolls of paper, they developed a line of tubular furniture. They made drum chairs for children, circle shelves and side tables for beds.
"Water beds had just come out and I made a 'wave' headboard," Winter said. "It was my favorite design."
They branched out into display systems, which they sold to Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus, Macy's, Sears and JC Penney.
As a young man, Winter worked on the family ranch and considered himself a cowboy until he wandered into Pleasanton one day and began to envision the first caricature map of the city, with playful drawings marking shops and landmarks.
"I had seen caricature maps done before but mostly on the East Coast," Winter said.
He attended Chamber of Commerce meetings to promote the maps and was introduced: "This is Gary Winter. He's an artist." He decided it was a fit.
Winter worked with his brother Ben for four years to perfect the ridges of the Zwirl football to make it ergonomic and aerodynamic. Around this time, Blackhawk was being developed and Winter moved with his young family into the 10,000-square-foot Blackhawk ranch house, where he was caretaker -- plus had an entire wing for his art studio.
"We lived out there for seven years, it was incredible," he said.
For the last few years, Winter has been making stick figures from 2-by-4s. He brings favorites to Saturday Farmers Markets where he sets up on Main Street and Angela. Sometimes he gets stick figure commissions.
"It's neat, I meet so many people and hear all their stories," he said.
It was Christmastime in the late '90s when Winter got the idea to create Kolln Hardware in miniature. This has led to more than 120 little buildings, with their precise likenesses laminated onto pieces of wood that he cuts out.
"I have 800 collectors -- some have every building I did on Main Street," Winter said. "Some people started having me do their homes."
The arch was always a best seller and one day Winter was inspired to put it onto little magnets, a collectible more people could afford. He sold hundreds.
"Then one day I was taking my walk down Main Street, and I looked at the arch and thought, 'That is the heart of Pleasanton'" he recalled.
He designed tiny red hearts on sticks to add to the arches. He also began to make little gold pins with hearts to distribute as an antidote to the current negativity in the world.
Winter credits meditation, which he began in his 20s, for staying calm and centered.
"Our minds are so distracted and programmed -- throw the dragons out, imagine a better way, a better day," he said. "Acknowledge your heart."
* In high school, Gary Winter worked at his uncle's haberdashery in Fremont. He began on the register but soon was creating window displays.
* Winter joined the Navy right after high school and was stationed in Hawaii and Guam.
* Winter has been meditating for more than 45 years after attending a workshop by Werner Erhard, creator of EST. He advises: "Stop for a second, acknowledge your heart, take a deep breath and look around you and appreciate everything."
* His son just got married, and his daughter is expecting his first grandchild in March.
* Ask Winter how he is and he always responds, "Super duper!"
* See more Gary Winter creations at www.garyawinter.com.


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Transformation of the Automotive Industry into Electric Vehicles and Promotion of Aluminum Industry
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Release on:2018-04-12
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Torbjorn Sternsjo, senior vice president of technology and business development at Granges AB, said: "By 2025, the hybrid vehicle market will occupy a large proportion, which will bring opportunities and challenges for car companies at the same time."
He also added that in terms of powertrain manufacturing, Europe and Asia have experienced the greatest changes because their products will depend heavily on aluminum.
According to Emilio Braghi, president of Novelis Europe, the use of aluminum(Aluminum coil for car parts 3004) in body parts will continue to increase for the entire automotive industry. This is mainly driven by electric vehicles. The former focuses on lightweighting strategies, or it is keeping the same battery. In the case of extended cruising range, batteries with smaller size are used, and the application of aluminum material just helps the lightweight design.
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Mokk-a is Five
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Aug 13, 2014 Margot Dockrell1 CommentBlog, News
MOKK-A IS FIVE YEARS OLD now…so let's take a moment to look back to the beginning.
(As told to Margot Dockrell)
I'd been toying with the idea of starting my own business for years, and after a life-changing cup of what became Café Svenska, the idea of coffee suddenly sounded like an interesting new project! Introduce a collection of European coffees to the U.S, where I was born. But as I drove (and drove and drove) from my current home in Rotterdam to meet a friend in Puligny-Montrachet for a few days, I worried….
I had the recipe for one amazing coffee blend, but would I be able to secure others that were just as distinctive?
Would Americans embrace blended coffees after their long love affair with single varietals like Jamaican Blue and Sumatra something or other?
I knew nothing about the food industry, much less coffee. Could I succeed?
Paule, the Quebecoise friend I was meeting, had secured rooms for us at a charming inn. In the three days that she preceded me there, she had befriended the owners and was redesigning part of their garden when I arrived.
"They are lovely, lovely people, but no organization! The flowers were all this way and that way! I had to help." she explained, kissing me on each cheek. She said she had an excursion planned for us, but would give me no details.
The next day was balmy and we sat on the terrace overlooking the extensive perennial garden – now "in transition" with several large tidy holes in it – to enjoy our baguette and morning café. A rich dark roast, it was delicious, with deep chocolaty undertones and a floral aroma – or was that the garden? I noticed Paule watching me intently.
"This coffee is beautiful! It's fantastic," I said.
"Oui!" she agreed, and made a hurried motion with her hands. "We have somewhere to go."
I tried to slow her down, but Paule is an unstoppable a force when she is on a mission (witness our innkeeper's garden.) It was still early when we arrived at our mysterious destination, a low stone shed built onto the rear wall of a church. It had a massive wooden door with a big round brass latch in the middle. There was a black metal pot hanging from a chain over the door and a disproportionately tall chimney at the back that added to a fairy tale quality about the building.
Paule muscled the door open and our destination was revealed as the wonderful aroma of roasting coffee beckoned us in. She called out, "Allo! Bonjour"! A curmudgeonly old man in a long apron emerged out of the dim back room, leaning on a sooty metal poker as he walked.
We shook hands, then Paule translated as I spoke, first telling the old gentleman how much I appreciated his coffee, and then of my dream to bring wonderful coffee blends like his to America. He listened with his head cocked to one side, occasionally holding up one hand to stop Paule and ask a question, but never taking his eyes off my face. I felt he was peering deep into my soul to discern whether or not I was genuine, and a worthy recipient of the recipe for this coffee blend, developed by his father and grandfather before him. As I began to feel understood and trusted by this seemingly ancient craftsman, I felt my confidence return and the uncertainties that plagued me disappear.
Emerging into the bright summer sun was blinding after the cavernous interior of the shop. In one hand, I gleefully clutched a brown paper bag on which the roaster had carefully penciled his family's coffee recipe; in the other hand I held two bags of coffee beans.
At this, the fifth anniversary of Mokk-a, I look ahead to continued growth and expansion, and I also look back and remember, with gratitude and affection, "M. Café France" and the others like him in Holland, Sweden, Italy, and Switzerland!
I love this! Happy Anniversary!
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Mokk-a is local. Mokk-a is global. The Netherlands is technically our headquarters and the beans used in our blends are sourced from many different countries, but the roasting takes place in the US and Italy to ensure you receive the freshness you deserve. You will find our unique coffees in specialty stores across the US and Europe. See our Retailer listing to find a location near you.
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BASELine – Raw Data
On Jul 26, 2016 2:00 pm, by dandr0id
If I've learned anything from the first couple of months with my HTC Vive it's that gunfire and VR go together like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But what if you threw in some killer robots, a sassy AI, laser swords, and a whole lot of high tension action? You'd have one of the tastiest sandwiches ever! Only that sandwich is known as Raw Data.
Raw Data by developer Survios has already made its mark by topping the Steam charts for July sales and it's only just getting started. Even though the game is only in early access, it already looks and feels better than a lot of complete games that have been available on the market for months, so let's start there.
Upon starting the game, you will notice the polish that has already gone into the game. There are no generic floating fonts or cookie cutter graphics here. Raw Data has a fully modeled environment housing Interactive menus so you can get a feel for movement and controls without diving head first into the missions.Granted, their menus could use a little retooling to improve navigation and clarify what exactly you are trying to do. I spent a good five minutes trying to activate a training mission and I accidentally started the first mission instead. I then realized after I completed the first mission that the training areas were
Granted, their menus could use a little retooling to improve navigation and clarify what exactly you are trying to do. I spent a good five minutes trying to activate a training mission and I accidentally started the first mission instead. I then realized after I completed the first mission that the training areas were actually to the left and right of the starting area. As with many VR games, physical navigation uses blink movement which helps to alleviate motion sickness by teleporting point to point through the environment. They have put in a very quick blur movement to make it feel like you're dashing from point to point but I hope they allow users to turn this off as it could still lead to motion sickness if played for extended periods of time, especially for the amount that you need to move in this game.
Movement aside, one of the best feeling actions in the game is shooting and reloading. The character you start the game with has a single handgun and it is reloaded by grabbing a clip off of your belt and moving it towards the gun which triggers a reloading animation. Also, while firing, you can stabilize your firing hand by holding your other hand under it like firing a real gun, but I have yet to figure out if this actually improves accuracy or just physically feels more stable.
Now, unfortunately, the gun play is not all sunshine and puppy dogs because the game doesn't scale nicely with the fact that you're using a tiny pistol with a 15 shot clip and manual reloads. If you want an accurate feeling of what it would be like to be in the middle of the final scene of "I Robot" holding a pistol, this would be it. When you are standing in the middle of the stage and the normal robots are coming towards you in pairs it's not too bad, you pop some head shots and smirk because you feel like a bad ass.
The problem is even in the first level; things get so hectic that you will constantly be scrambling for a clip to reload that won't appear, you'll accidentally keep swapping which hand your gun is in and sometimes you even accidentally holster your gun while you're frantically trying to shoot at an ever increasing number of robots. The issue is that they have mapped the pinch buttons on the Vive control to grip everything so holding the gun near you other hand and pressing those buttons will switch hands. And when you're moving and crouching while trying to grab at something on your virtual belt, half the time the game doesn't know you're going for a clip which leaves you completely vulnerable especially with your gun only carrying 15 shots at a time.
Fortunately later in the game they do unlock the ability to bump your gun on your hip to auto reload it because they also unlock the ability to carry a second pistol. With the difficulty and chaos of the first couple levels, I feel like these should be unlocked from the start and maybe have an upgrade system in place to increase their firing rate and damage output instead of just artificially making the game harder by locking away the abilities and equipment that the character should have from the start of the game.
Now, with all that being said, the game is still in early access and I'm certain that they will attempt to balance out the controls and gameplay so it won't be so ridiculously hard. But even with those issues, the game is still an absolute blast to play. The shooting feels solid and is oh so satisfying to ring a few headshots in a row. The environment and robot design is on point, and the immersion is second to none of all the Vive games I've played.
Raw Data is currently on 20% discount on steam until August 2nd and you can pick it up for $35.19 and it is absolutely worth it and I cannot wait to see where the game goes from here.
Dandr0id is a content writer for AYBOnline.com, a producer for the Level 1 Scrubs podcast, and an avid fan of pizza. He may also be a robot and is probably a ninja. His opinions are his own.
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Big Brother 2022 LIVE — Finalist Monte Taylor 'surprised' by jury votes following Taylor Hale's historic win
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RUNNER-UP Monte Taylor lost in an 8-1 vote against Taylor Hale, who he says he underestimated.
After Hale made Big Brother history as the first Black woman to win the reality competition show, Taylor admitted in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he thought he could best Hale, who was the underdog of the season.
In the interview, Taylor said: "I felt like the stars were aligning. I thought that everything was working out perfectly in my mind, especially given my résumé, given the relationships that I had in jury, and how I played this game thus far.
"I had no doubt in my mind that I would be coming out on top after the vote."
He also said that the jury votes that surprised him the most were Joseph, Kyle, Michael, Indy, and Terrance.
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Taylor on The Talk
Big Brother winner Taylor Hale went on The Talk and discussed her experience in the house with the talk show's hosts.
When discussing the harassment she experienced while on the show, Taylor revealed that she had even thought about throwing a competition so that she could be evicted because that's how miserable she was.
"It came down to me realizing that I joined the game for a larger purpose," Taylor said.
"I had seen black women come into this game and be bullied and harassed and I wanted to be the person to carry that weight so that black women wouldn't have to do that ever again in this game."
Turner's guess
Matthew "Turner" Turner, who finished the season in third place, said after the finale that he couldn't decide whether to vote for Monte or Taylor at the live vote.
The finalist admitted that while the live episode was on a commercial break, he asked the other jurors who they were voting for – but they responded that they couldn't share that information.
Turner ended up guessing wrong and voting for Monte – making him the only one out of nine jurors to vote against Taylor.
Remembering Cassandra Waldon
The first-ever resident of Big Brother USA passed away in 2019 due to injuries sustained from a car accident.
Cassandra finished sixth out of the 10 first American houseguests.
Besides being the first person to enter the Big Brother house, Cassandra Waldon was the first black woman on the show – setting the stage for this season's winner, Taylor Hale.
Cassandra was 56 years old and working for the United Nations in Italy when she was struck by a car, causing her to lose consciousness from a head injury and die two months later.
Julie Chen Moonves remembered Cassandra in an Instagram post in 2019, writing: "Thank you for bringing your intelligence, warmth and wisdom to the Big Brother house Season 1."
Monte surprised by jury votes
Big Brother finalist Monte Taylor spoke with EW about which jury members he was surprised that he didn't win over.
Monte told the outlet that he expected Joseph, Kyle, Michael, Indy, and Terrance to vote for him.
"I thought those votes were going to come through, just because of the relationships that I had with them, the type of game that I played, the moves that I made," the runner-up said.
Taylor's speech
In a last attempt to win the jury's votes, the final two are allowed to give a convincing speech.
As shown on the feeds, the beauty queen had been practicing her speech for nights before the live finale – and it proved to be worth it as Taylor gave an impressive, emotional speech just before she was crowned the winner.
"I am not a victim, I am a victor," Taylor told the jurors.
"If there is one word that is going to describe the season, it is resiliency.
"And if you were to ask yourself who was the most resilient person of the season, it was me."
Renewed for season 25
Big Brother has been renewed for next year's season, Julie Chen Moonves announced on Twitter.
"We are coming back for our 25th season of the show," the longtime host said.
"I'll see you next summer. Bye."
We're so excited to announce Season 25 of #BigBrother will come to your screens next summer. Stay tuned. 🎉 @CBSBigBrother pic.twitter.com/FqqP0InTLw
— Julie Chen Moonves (@JCMoonves) September 26, 2022
Who is Dr Will?
Dr Will returned during last night's finale and weighed in on the final three with the jurors.
Dr Will is Will Kirby, who won the second season of Big Brother in 2001.
After starring on the show, the aesthetic dermatologist famously hosted the NBC dating show Love Shack, and later appeared on six episodes of Bravo's Battle of The Network Reality Stars.
He also won the celebrity edition of The Price is Right in 2016.
In 2022, Will portrayed the role of Karales the Bounty Hunter in The Book of Boba Fett.
He tied the knot with Erin Brodie in 2017 but filed for divorce shortly after in July 2021.
Turner's interview
Julie asked Turner if he was shocked after being evicted, and Turner said that he "isn't mad" about the final eviction.
However, the thrift store owner said that he would have taken Monte to the end if the tables had been turned.
While Turner admitted he didn't have the best jury management, he told Julie that he made good moves so he still thought that he would have had a good shot with the jurors.
Fans are shocked
The three contestants to receive the most votes for America's Favorite Houseguest were Taylor Hale, Michel Bruner, and Kyle Capener.
Because of Kyle's rollercoaster of a season, fans were stunned to hear he got so many votes.
Kyle getting top 3 for AFP has got to be the biggest blindside of the season wtfffff #BB24
— Reality Room Podcast (@RoomPodcast) September 26, 2022
CONGRATS TO TAYLOR FOR AFP BUT HOW DID KYLE GET IN THE TOP 3??? 😭😭 #BB24 pic.twitter.com/t3CaaJxnDv
— Isaiah (@HeyIts_Isaiah) September 26, 2022
Big Brother did not have a black winner until 2021
The show has received backlash in the past for its lack of representation.
It was not until Season 23 when attorney Xavier Prather won the show and became the first black winner.
Xavier beat Derek Frazier in the final two with all nine jury votes.
Now, Big Brother history was made for the second year in a row as Taylor Hale became the first black woman to win the competition.
What do Big Brother winners get?
The Big Brother winner takes home $750,000.
America's Favorite Houseguest wins $50,000 and a luxury Princess Cruises vacation for two.
If you've done the math, that means that Taylor will go home with $800,000 and a free vacation.
Monte will go home with $75,000.
BB alum praises Taylor
Season 23 contestant Hannah Chaddha tweets her praise for Taylor as a member of the Cookout alliance.
"You were able to finish what your sisters before you started," Hannah writes.
wow. taylor mackenzie dickens hale, you are a queen. you represent the brightest light. you embody grace. you encapsulate resilience. you were able to finish what your sisters before you started. i am so proud of you my girl. #BB24
— Hannah Chaddha (@hannah_chaddha) September 26, 2022
Final vote
Taylor won Big Brother by 8 points, with only Turner voting for Monte.
Julie revealed that the top three players that received the most votes for America's Favorite Houseguest were Michael, Taylor, and Kyle.
Other queer contestants
Some contestants who didn't win the competition were still fan favorites:
Vanessa Rousso (season 17)
Tommy Branco (season 21)
Christie Murphy (season 21)
Others who were more controversial were still featured in the show:
Frankie Grande (season 16)
Jozea Flores (season 18)
Derek Frazier (season 23)
LGBTQ+ contestants
Big Brother has had a few LGBTQ+ contestants on the show.
Andy Herren became the first gay man to win the show in season 15.
Five years later, Kaycee Clark became the first lesbian woman to win the show in season 20.
Winner's earnings
The winner of the Big Brother season 24 competition got $750,000, which is the same amount as the season 23 winner.
However, in all previous seasons they only received $250,000.
The runner-up tfrom his season takes home $75,000, and the HouseGuest voted "America's favorite" gets $25,000.
Additionally, all guests (including those who have been sent to the jury house) receive $1,000 per week stipend for being on the show.
There's a dress code at the house
Houseguests are not permitted to wear any clothing, including shirts, jeans, caps, coats, etc. with recognized logos, unless it was provided by the production or it has prior consent to be worn, according to Housely.
Additionally, they are instructed to refrain from donning items of clothing that are completely white, made of silk, or have polka dots or fine stripes since they do not look good on television.
Recruits must watch a season
Before participating in the competition, each candidate must watch at least one complete season of Big Brother, according to ScreenRant.
This is done to familiarize recruits with the program.
The houseguests are given access to old episodes of the program to view while they are secluded before the show starts.
Since more recent seasons are more in line with the games now, many of these competitors choose to watch them.
This is attributed by some fans to the recently popularized "dominate alliance" tendency.
Only 3 guests have been expelled
Big Brother has clear guidelines on inappropriate behavior, according to Bustle.
Yet, out of the roughly 200 candidates who have entered the house, just three have been eliminated early rather than as a result of breaching the rules or engaging in violence, the outlet reported.
Show expulsions happen
A few houseguests have been kicked off the show over the years, according to Insider.
This includes Chima Simone from season 11, who threw her microphone into the pool despite numerous demands by producers to turn it on, and Justin Sebik from season 2, who drew a knife on a fellow participant, per the outlet.
Big Brother produced more marriages than The Bachelor
Big Brother has resulted in more happy marriages than The Bachelor has, according to ScreenRant.
There have actually been a lot of popular showmances that eventually got married such as season 11's Jordan Lloyd and Jeff Schroeder, season 12's Brendon Villegas and Rachel Reilly, and season 20's Swaggy C and Bayleigh Dayton, among many others.
Julie has been hosting Big Brother since 2000
Since Big Brother's premiere in 2000, Julie has served as the show's host.
She was given the moniker "Chenbot" for her extremely rehearsed performance and interactions with the studio audience.
However, when discussing it in interviews, she has said that she doesn't find it offensive.
Who is Julie Chen Moonves?
Julie Chen, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in Queens, New York.
In 1991, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Together with Andy Cohen, she interned at CBS Morning News to launch her career.
Before relocating to Ohio to serve as a local news correspondent for WDTN-TV, she first started working at ABC NewsOne.
Later, she served as the news anchor for CBS This Morning and CBS Morning News.
In a private ceremony held in Acapulco, Mexico, she wed Les Moonves, the president and CEO of CBS Television, in December 2004.
Michael broke a Big Brother record
Michael Bruner broke Janelle Pierzina's (Season 7), Daniele Briones' (Season 8), Paul Abrahamian's (Season 19), and Kaycee Clark's record by winning his sixth Power of Veto challenge.
Michael tied the record inside the BB house faster than any other contestant in the show's history, in fewer than 60 days, according to Goldderby, before going on to break it.
Have-Nots, explained
A few unfortunate house guests are forced to live in less than luxurious conditions for one week every week as punishment.
They are only allowed to eat slop, which is bland food similar to oatmeal, and are forced to take cold showers, and sleep in uncomfortable beds made for punishment.
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The Dragons ran into a determined Formosa Dreamers squad, that threatened to pull the rug from under them and end their losing streak. But in the end, big shots from Eversley and Wong Yi Hou were enough for the Dragons to pick up the tough win on the road.
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February 11, 2019 Mason Merrell Florida, Human Resources, Payroll
Is Physician's Pay Data a Secret?
Hey Compliance Warriors!
Some hospitals think that it's okay to keep their physicians pay data a secret. However, a Florida federal court came down with a different decision. Read on…
Article via: fisherphillips.com
"When a Florida federal court recently rejected a hospital system's attempt to keep its physician compensation data private, despite a claim that the information constituted a trade secret, healthcare employers across the country were sent a strong and clear message that pay data might not be as protected as you think it is. The decision might come as somewhat of a surprise, given the lengths to which many healthcare employers go to keep their employees' compensation information out of the public eye. What specifically did the court say, and is there any chance that you could avoid the same fate and keep your pay data private?
Hospital Tries To Cloak Physician Pay Data From Public View
The trouble all started when Angela D'Anna, an employee with Lee Memorial Health System in Southwest Florida, filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the hospital paid illegal fees and financial incentives under improper pay arrangements. She also alleged that Lee Health paid excessive compensation to certain physicians and knowingly submitted false claims to government payers such as Medicare and Medicaid. In essence, her theory was that Lee Health inflated the relative value of the physicians' work by crediting them with work that was actually being completed by physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
The complaint and the underlying exhibits supporting her claim were originally filed under seal pursuant to rules of civil procedure, but because the federal court system places a high emphasis on ensuring public access to judicial proceedings and court records, the process of unsealing the case file soon began. In early September 2018, a federal judge unsealed the case file, at which point the information became publicly available.
This alarmed Lee Health because much of the evidence contained within and attached to the complaint included specific compensation information about its physicians, including the exact methodologies used to determine their pay. It immediately filed an emergency motion to reseal certain exhibits, asserting that the file contained "trade secrets" that should be shielded from public disclosure. Under federal law, the four criteria used to determine whether information will be considered a "trade secret" are:
Whether the employer consistently treats the information as a closely guarded secret;
Whether the information represents a substantial value to the employer;
Whether the information would be valuable to the employer's competitors; and
Whether the information derives its value by virtue of the effort of its creation and lack of dissemination.
Lee Health argued that the physician compensation information counted as trade secrets under this analysis because the public and its competition could not readily obtain the information. This was due to the strict internal policies the hospital had maintained to prevent the disclosure of such data (including tight controls over what and wasn't produced as a result of any public records requests). The hospital further argued that it faces a high degree of difficulty when it comes to the recruitment and retention of its physicians, and that the release of this information into the marketplace would place it at a competitive disadvantage.
Court: "It Might Be Confidential, But It's Not A Trade Secret"
The court disagreed, and on October 16, unsealed the case file. Although the information in question was arguably confidential, the court found that it did not rise to the level of a "trade secret" under applicable law. While it acknowledged that Lee Health took ample steps to protect the data from release, and even ensured that it was only made internally available on a need-to-know basis, the court concluded that it was not clear "that the information at issue represents substantial value to Lee Health or would be particularly valuable to Lee Health's competitors."
First, the court pointed out that the data was historical in nature, covering a period of time four years earlier (since the scheme purportedly uncovered by D'Anna took place from 2005 to 2014). Second, the information was somewhat limited in scope; the compensation data covered only a limited number of doctors in a few different specialties.
Most importantly, the court believed that there were other means available for members of the public and Lee Health's competitors to estimate the physician compensation amounts. More specifically, an individual could look to publicly available Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) reports and derive a comparable estimate. This, in the court's opinion, reduced the value of the information and led to the conclusion that it was not considered a trade secret under the law. For these reasons, the court ordered the case file to remain open and in public view, and the litigation will continue without the need for such information to be redacted or filed under seal.
Top 10 Lessons To Be Learned
This decision is a good reminder that pay rates for your physicians, and perhaps other employees, will not automatically be considered a trade secret—even if that information is not typically shared outside the company, and even though its disclosure could potentially harm your ability to recruit and retain the most qualified employees. You must take affirmative steps to ensure that your information will be protected before it ends up in court. Below are the "Top 10" tips you can implement to help ensure your organization's pay information will not meet the same fate as the employer's in the Lee Health case:
Ensure your organizations' pay methodologies are distinct from raw payroll data. You are far less likely to be harmed by a competitor discovering what one particular employee is being paid as opposed to how you calculate what salary to offer potential recruits in the future.
Consider hiring a third-party consultant to conduct a salary survey periodically to ensure your compensation levels remain competitive in your industry and geographic market. Any fees associated with such salaries may help to demonstrate the independent economic value associated with your organization's pay rates.
Limit access to compensation-related information to only those employees who need access to such information as part of their jobs.
Require all employees who will have access to payroll information to execute a separate confidentiality agreement at the outset of their employment.
At the same time, ensure that all such employees also sign a non-disclosure agreement to prevent the unwanted dissemination of information.
Maintain a digital access log and audit trail for any computer systems or files containing employee pay information.
Provide your payroll department with clear guidelines outlining in writing: the circumstances in which it is permissible to disclose pay-related information; identifying all parties to whom that information may be disclosed (e.g., a third-party auditor, a government agency, or the Director of Human Resources); and explaining exactly what information or records should be provided.
Conduct exit interviews with all departing employees, during which they should sign a sworn statement confirming that they have returned all company property in their possession, including any documents and electronically stored information.
Ensure decisions regarding employees' pay rates or salaries are properly documented and approved by appropriate management and human resources personnel (particularly if an individual's compensation will be significantly higher or lower than his or her peers').
Hire an experienced employment lawyer to conduct a compliance audit to identify and correct any issues before they materialize into a lawsuit."
For more information: https://www.fisherphillips.com/resources-newsletters-article-is-your-physician-pay-data-a-trade
Until Next Time, Be Audit-Secure!
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Imad Moosa's thought-provoking book explores the contemporary doctrine that plagues the academic sphere: the principle of publish or perish. This book identifies the pressures placed upon academics to either publish their work regularly, or suffer the consequences, including lack of promotion, or even redundancy.
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Show that the bilinear form $$a(u,v)=\int_\Omega\nabla u.\nabla v+\left(\int_\Omega u\right)\left(\int_\Omega v\right)$$ for every $u,v\in H^1(\Omega)$ is
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For the second part , I understand that by Lax-Milgram , one has $$\int_\Omega\nabla u.\nabla v+\left(\int_\Omega u\right)\left(\int_\Omega v\right)=\int_\Omega fv$$ But from there how to bring $\displaystyle\int_\Omega u=\frac1{\text{meas}(\Omega)}\int_\Omega f$ ? Any help is appreciated .

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Authorities say a 39-year-old inmate who escaped from work release while serving a murder sentence has been captured.Officials listed John Mohr as escaped from the state work release facility in Davenport on Friday when he didn't return to the facility from his job as scheduled.The Iowa Corrections Department said in a news release Saturday that Mohr had been apprehended and was in custody in the Scott County Jail. It did not give other details of his escape or capture.The department says Mohr was sent to work release following parole revocation on April 18. In 1997, he was sentenced to 50 years after being convicted of second-degree murder in Clinton County for the 1995 death of his girlfriend's 13-month-old son.
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Authorities say a 39-year-old inmate who escaped from work release while serving a murder sentence has been captured.
Officials listed John Mohr as escaped from the state work release facility in Davenport on Friday when he didn't return to the facility from his job as scheduled.
The Iowa Corrections Department said in a news release Saturday that Mohr had been apprehended and was in custody in the Scott County Jail. It did not give other details of his escape or capture.
The department says Mohr was sent to work release following parole revocation on April 18. In 1997, he was sentenced to 50 years after being convicted of second-degree murder in Clinton County for the 1995 death of his girlfriend's 13-month-old son.
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